Deconstruction of Editing in the Wolf of Wall Street Trailer

The Wolf of Wall Street Trailer

Editing

• 0:07-0:12 we see extremely fast pace editing with there being 6 different scenes in 7 seconds with each scene giving the audience links to what the film is about.
• These first two show the audience a dense city skyline of New York City which has connotations of Cooperate business giving the audience some restricted narrative.

• After the first two it switches quickly to a close up shot of the Wall ST sign again reinstating the strong connotations and wealth and cooperate business. Also the fast editing to the wall street sign symbolises the face paced nature of wall street and the stock market itself.

• The trailer then again through fast paced editing changes to a long shot an iron bull which represents the 'Bull Market' that is another link to the American stock trading market that's giving the audience a strong insight what the films narrative is about.

• This next scene presents through a long shot the doors to Broadway with people in suits and brief cases to represent how the city of 'money' is full of people in the 'rat race' to install how money and success will take a strong presence in the film.

• The final scene in this sequence of fast past editing is a mid shot of Leonardo DiCaprio who is the leading role in the film which will entice the audience to watch longer because of his acting status. Moreover, from the mise-en-scene of the main character it is evident that he's into some sort of cooperate business as the nice suit and slick hair connotes that.

• 0:17 It then switches quickly to a gold yellow screen with black typography that with each beat of the non-diegetic music of Kanye West's song Black Skinhead reveals the name of the the rewound director Martin Scorsese. 

• This revealing of the director through fast past editing creates suspense in the people who are finding out this 'academy award winning director' that will persuade them even more to watch the film as the produces have made a huge deal out of the director to entice people through editing.

• 0:43-0:51  Through fast paced, jump cut editing we see a stark contrast from the cooperate business world to a woman strapped with money and it conveys how the world of cooperate business is one that exploits woman through money as shown in the picture below.

• Through the fast editing that presents through a long two shot the power woman have over men and but the fact the editing is fast paced shows how short of a time the men are inferior to woman due to their addiction to money.

• 1:31-2:14  Here again, is fast paced editing showing celebrations in concession to show how in the realm of Wall Street and cooperate business success and making childhood dreams a reality can happen extremely quickly.
•  As a result of this editing to creates an enigma for the audience to find out how and why his success came about and to find out more about the lift of a successful person.

• However, without any sort of recognisable transition we see a series of 'bad' scenes showing the main characters stress, the police and federal agencies and people taking a criminal mind set with hanging a man off the roof of a building.
•  The fact the editing is still at its fast pace conveys how quickly success in wall street and quickly become to stop and this gives the trailer and enigmatic feel to discover the 'wolf of wall street' rose to success and how his success come to a demise.

Conclusion

• The trailer is full of extremely fast paced editing that includes jump cuts, cross cuts, cuts, juxtapositions which has cleverly been done to reflect the contextual relevance the film is based on and in doing so also creates a sense of excitement within the people watching the trailer. 
• The editing also produces enigmas to the films narrative and keeps it as restrictive narrative through this fast paced editing that doesn't give any huge plot give always to the audience. I intend to adapt this type of the editing that reflects my films context whether it be slow or fast editing because I find it a great way to keep a restrictive narrative while enticing the audience in with what the films about.